Friday, December 30, 2016

Progress: 15/30 - #18. read 30 texts that will aid in my teaching

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I've avoided this memoir for a very long time, out of some deep-seated fear. I just read it, in the better part of two days. Most...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Completed: #39. try embroidery

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I find that I develop obsessions with certain arts or crafts for extended periods of time, and it gets difficult for me to focus on anythin...
Sunday, December 4, 2016

Progress: 14/30 - #18. read 30 texts that will aid in my teaching

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This appeared in my school library around the same time as Gord Downie / Jeff Lemire's Secret Path . It is a novella by Joseph Boyd...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Progress: 12/30 and 13/30 - #18. read 30 texts that will aid in my teaching

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Someday, I want to teach in one of many schools that utilizes and celebrates indigenous studies - instead of dismissing course proposals wi...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Progress: 11/30 - #18. read 30 texts that will aid in my teaching

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For those of you who do not know, I was blessed with an extraordinary talent for sleeping. I can fall asleep in bright light, to a back...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

Completed: #1 - take French lessons

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The amount of time I spend in my car pains me. It's literally almost 2 hours per weekday (10 hours per work week, 400 hours per work ye...
Saturday, October 1, 2016

Progress: 10/30 - #18. read 30 texts that will aid in my teaching

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I've been steadily building a list of independent course texts for my grade 10 students, centered around the topic of culture. As a...